Contemporary conversations about changing global spaces continue to promptinterrogations of dominant and alternative geographiesâ€”planetary,technological, literary. This has resulted in the emergence of newperspectives on how to understand the spacesâ€”textual, pedagogical,political, geographical, etc.â€”from which, into which, and about which weread land and terrestriality. This conference will encourage discussionthat spans temporal and cultural milieus and will enable graduate studentsworking in a variety of areas and disciplines to address the ways in which21st century scholarship considers issues of spatiality. It also presentsa unique opportunity to engage ways in which diverse theories arealways-already explicitly and implicitly activating larger vocabularies oflandscape and land. Possible areas of inquiry may include but are notlimited to:

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